Re: Custom Scan APIs (Re: Custom Plan node)

KaiGai


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> wrote:

> Thanks for your review.
>
> 2013/11/19 Jim Mlodgenski <jimmy76@gmail.com>:
> > My initial review on this feature:
> > - The patches apply and build, but it produces a warning:
> > ctidscan.c: In function ‘CTidInitCustomScanPlan’:
> > ctidscan.c:362:9: warning: unused variable ‘scan_relid’
> [-Wunused-variable]
> >
> This variable was only used in Assert() macro, so it causes a warning if
> you
> don't put --enable-cassert on the configure script.
> Anyway, I adjusted the code to check relid of RelOptInfo directly.


>
The warning is now gone.


> > I'd recommend that you split the part1 patch containing the ctidscan
> contrib
> > into its own patch. It is more than half of the patch and its certainly
> > stands on its own. IMO, I think ctidscan fits a very specific use case
> and
> > would be better off being an extension instead of in contrib.
> >
> OK, I split them off. The part-1 is custom-scan API itself, the part-2 is
> ctidscan portion, and the part-3 is remote join on postgres_fdw.
>

Attached is a patch for the documentation. I think the documentation still
needs a little more work, but it is pretty close. I can add some more
detail to it once finish adapting the hadoop_fdw to using the custom scan
api and have a better understanding of all of the calls.


> Thanks,
> --
> KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
>